New version. Nothing huge changed.

Poll initiated. I think it's best to decide what to do with the temples before any changes are made to the other inter-continent links, like making them one-way or making them continent-neutral tunnels.

Actually, I'd argue that the actual game map is LESS 'real' looking. There were changes made for playability reasons.

Okay, so, based on the comments so far, here's what I'm going to change:

Textures. The ones I used are just placeholders anyway. I know they aren't great. Might not fix it right away, but I will eventually see what I can do.

I'll add the three main great fairy fountains. I'll call them Din's ...

Unfortunately, I can't make a Twilight Princess map right now, because I haven't been able to get a Wii yet, and I'm not going to waste my money buying both versions.

About the copyright thing, I meant that codes and laws are vague on the matter of works that describe fictional worlds. If a map like this is infringement, then so is the entirety of every game walkthrough, and every drawing based on a description in a book (like any painting of something from LotR ...

Another new version:
http://rallion.org/Hyrule1-3.jpg

The dice are definitely random. The problem is that the human brain, for some reason, has a huge amount of trouble understanding what 'random' means. All that 'random' means is that all outcomes have an equal probability.

Anyway...it's the cases like this that make me prefer the dice used in the ...

New version. Original post updated.

Link to new image: http://aycu26.webshots.com/image/8505/2 ... 239_rs.jpg

Nintendo actually has a policy of never responding to requests for permission to use copyright materials.

Anyway, assuming I use no actual Nintendo-made images (which sadly means no logo), copyright shouldn't be an issue, although copyright laws are really vague on these kinds of things and there ...

Here's the latest version of my Hyrule map.

Recent changes:
0.4: Added the three fairy fountains. Cosmetic and name changes.
0.3: Added army shadows and moved the text around. Added some funny business around Lon Lon Ranch. Other cosmetic changes.
0.2: completely redrawing the borders to be ...